USA Today: Indian women hear some crazy things about their periods

Like most girls in her working class Delhi neighborhood, Jyoti Thakur didn't know much about her menstrual cycle, other than that it was a nuisance....It wasn't until she met volunteers from The YP Foundation, a nonprofit organization in Delhi that works with youth and gender issues, that she learned new ways to care for herself — from wrapping up sanitary napkins to knowing that she was just as clean as everyone else in her household at the time.